Congress calls opposition meet on migrants’ plight, changes in labour laws

So far, 17 parties have agreed to take part in the meeting via video-conferencing, but the SP and the BSP are yet to confirm their attendance.

Current Affairs : The Congress has assembled a conference of similar resistance groups on Friday to examine the predicament of transients and the adjustments in labor laws acquired by certain states, sources said. Interval Congress President Sonia Gandhi will seat the gathering. This is among a few activities taken by Gandhi since the Covid-19 emergency broke out.

Up until this point, 17 gatherings have consented to partake in the gathering through video-conferencing, yet the SP and the BSP are yet to affirm their participation.

Despite the fact that the Congress had promised backing to the Narendra Modi government even with the phenomenal wellbeing emergency the nation was confronting, half a month prior, the gathering president set up a board to scrutinize the administration’s treatment of the emergency. From that point forward, the Congress has been blistering in its analysis of the upgrade, the treatment of the transients issue, and the fine print of the sectoral sops reported to manage joblessness and business.

The resistance groups have assaulted the Center for permitting BJP-governed conditions of UP, MP, and Gujarat to alter work laws to bait remote financial specialists and “to strip laborers of their fundamental rights”.

These progressions incorporate excluding mechanical units from work government assistance rules, permitting them to make strides, for example, expanding every day and week by week working hours, and denying laborers of their entitlement to move court.

However, regardless of whether this will be a bound together Opposition standing up to the administration is the central issue. Trinamool Congress boss Mamata Banerjee’s antagonism to the Congress is notable. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has agreed with the national Opposition just on state issues, generally supporting the BJP on national issues. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has upheld, and even attempted to make, a non-Congress Opposition.

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